Joker's PoV
When I awoke, I realized a few things. First was that I was warm. This meant either day had come or someone had started a fire. Next, was I was no longer in the doorway, or anywhere close to it. Someone, or something had moved me. Then I heard a crash come from behind me. That was enough for me to assume the worst, that I had been attacked over night, and they thought I was dead.
I grabbed my auto rifle from the ledge I had put it on, and pulled the clip off of my belt. A trick I learned in training to prevent the weapon going off in your sleep and killing you, accidentally or by an attacker. I ran to the wall separating me from the intruder, and loaded my rifle. I fitted it into my shoulder, quickly leaned around the corner, and took aim at the only other living thing in the building...Cryptic.
"Dammit man, be more careful!" I shouted at him. "I almost shot you!"
"Check your targets and be prepared for anything, even the potential for friendly fire." He told me. "Besides, your ghost should have notified you that the only other life form in the building was a guardian."
At this, Joker's ghost appeared in front of him. "I tried to tell him, but he was completely comatose until seconds before you knocked over the shelves."
"What were you even doing back here?" Joker asked.
"I was searching for something to make this area noticeable for when the vanguard come to get us." Cryptic replied.
Thats when Cryptic's ghost appeared in front of him. "Oh, thats what you were doing! I thought you were just hungry!" His ghost said. "There is a giant radio tower on the roof of the building. All we have to do is reroute the power and it will light up like Christmas."
Then our ghosts vanished and we set to work rewiring the building. It we looked around for any power cords we could find, pulling them from everything, from some old TV set to what appeared to be some sort of cell phone charger. There was even an electric chair in the back room. I really don't want to know what happened back there.
After we had what we thought was enough cord, we began to connect things. Using that generator I found earlier, we could provide power for the signal lights, but first we would have to connect the two. We ripped the ends off of most of the cords and tied the internal wiring together. It's not a very effective technique for power transfer, but it was all we had at the moment. After all the wires were connected into one long power cord, we began to look for where the power supply for the radio tower was so we could turn it back on and get out of here.
When we found the correct door, I almost wish we hadn't. I was walking around in the hallways when I found a room labeled "TOWER". I called for Cryptic on my radio and said for him to start bringing the cord with him. I then tried to open the door. Nothing. The door was stuck worse than we were out here. I took a few steps back, and charged at the door, hitting it with a shoulder charge. Still nothing. I decided to go all out and smashed it in with a fist of havoc. Th door shattered into tiny metal shards, flying in every direction. And behind it was so many dead bodies, so many human remains, That there was no way this was an accident. I counted 15, no, 16 skeletons in the room, all grouped up in groups of 3 and 4. Some were smaller than others. These were the skeletons of families, with terrified children, all slaughtered here. For what? There was nothing in this building but a broken radio tower, there were no weapons in sight, and there is absolutely no trace of the light here. These people were as defenseless as they could have been, and yet some monsters ended there lives, and with no opposition based on the placement of the bones. I pushed it out of my mind and walked into the room, hoping to find what I was looking for fast so I could leave this place. After about a minute of searching, I found the power supply. a small generator hooked up to the wall, with a control panel labeled "TOWER CONTROLS".
Cryptic walked in, and I could tell he was just as horrified as I was. I called over to him "Hey, bring that cord over here. I found the controls."
When we plugged it in, I knew something had changed. I wasn't quite sure what it was yet, but I had the strangest feeling that things were going to change very soon.